we never went to the moon. and 6 million jews were not slaughtered by the nazis. that dress doesn't make you look fat honey. the check's in the mail. I promise not to come in your mouth. the american people are brilliant for electing the current president.
hey Huck, my wife is halfway through Tom Sawyer - but it is slow because we are reading it out loud together for practice. next will be your adventures! I imagine after a year, if we don't continue reading out loud together she will have read many more books in English than the combined 'triple threat' of this forum... :)
Huck sorry about your recent discovery. Also about my going off on nonsensical posts.
It is strange to discover that when you think you know someone the weirdest things emerge.
Just as I always steered away from any woman who reads her horoscope, there are still very strange beliefs in other countries that make me scratch my head. On a lighter note, I showed my wife "Napoleon Dynamite" last night. She didn't get it. But it reminded me of someone when Kip stated he's getting pretty serious with his woman. "We were online for like, over two hours!"
I heard the walk in the moon in a Hollywood studio story before. I just laughed and didn't say anything. Ralph, not to be smart ass or start fights, but how about asking your wife if she believes in the moon landing?
I actually had someone tell the proof of there being no moon landing is the fact that "people cannot even feed their families,how is it possible to fly to the moon". Lloyd Bentsen once took Dan Quayle to task in a debate. Dan referred himself as like John Kennedy. Lloyd said " I knew Jack Kennedy, Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine, you are no Jack Kennedy". Not much has changed except that the people with such vision are proud to stand up, be heard and lead us into despair. Have you anything else to add Danny Boy.
Danny, one trillionth the density of the earth at sea level http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_the_Moon . That means there is virtually no air. Dust flies because of air.
There was no camera waiting for their arrival and they sat in the lunar module for over ten hours before they get out of the craft. There is no atmosphere to hold or blow the dust and it falls like a rock immediately. Let me tell you in false facts that you will understand. I have seen a globe and being in Australia, you have fallen off and bumped your head on Mars.
Once again the subject is straying. But still relevant to the mindset of FSU peoples. Let's not forget that for the better part of the last century that the common folk there were very much censored. They were told what to think and believe (sounds like the New America). And any type of dissenting opinion was not received well by the powers that be (again, the New America). There is still very much suspicion and some paranoia. Remember it was not that long ago and that the elders of the society experienced incredible hardships that most in the west cannot fathom. Think 'Iron Curtain' for a looser explanation. For the younger generations... well they didn't experience a lifestyle similar to America of the last five decades. They went, pretty much, from having a deep dark shadow to the world of MTV. My wife is a very proud Russian woman. She gets defensive about many of the accomplishments (competitions) between the Soviets/Russia and the USofA. We watched the series "From The Earth to The Moon" together. She was fascinated and very much intent throughout the entire series. Yes, she believes we walked on the moon. She does come from a scientific background, geologist. She wouldn't mind going to the moon to hunt for rocks. Her curiosity and desire for knowledge is insatiable. Hence her desire to spend time in the Yellowstone caldera, Grand Canyon etc. I'd rather fish that wait for Old Faithful to erupt myself.
Now, is there dust on the moon that would blow when a craft landed? There certainly was when the craft lifted off. The boys didn't take this into account when they posted a flag too close to the landing module. The camera shows the eruption of dust and of a flag being blown over on take off.
RB, Apollo 13 did not land on the moon.
I myself think kangaroos are fictitious (make believe for those of you from oz that can't understand big words). Who actually thinks there is such a thing as this crazy looking animal that hops around like a giant rabbit and carries it's babies in a fanny pack? I think it is just a Hoolwood produced story of this strange place to get people to go there to spend tourist dollars. Hell, they even have a wine (Yellow Tail) with a picture (artist's rendition) of this critter on the bottle. The shiraz ain't bad. I tried a chardonnay once - stay away from their whites. Their merlot is rot. And the cabs almost as rot as the merlot. Maybe it was a bad year (decade?).
Speaking of wine, Russia produces some very good wine from the Kras-Krai region - maybe why my wife is particular to reds.
just one more thing. RB - "Dust flies because of air"
So let's say that dust needs air to 'fly'. Let's then presume, due to the vastness of space, that all of the stars, planets, moons and everything "floating" around in space are nothing more than specs of dust. On the grand scale this is easily imagined. Now since there is no air in space, what keeps these particles of dust afloat? Since there is no air, wouldn't everything just collapse into itself? Could be a topic to research. Was the Big Bang nothing more than all of this shit (a big mass of dust) just one big dust ball floating around in space - it had to be since the only place it could land was on itself - then it hit a pocket of air and all hell broke loose? Hmmmm? We could call it the "Big Air Theory".
I note the Russians don't dispute 'man in space', because they did it also, they don't dispute 'space shuttle', because they have/had a shuttle also, they don't dispute supersonic airline travel, they did that also, it seems they only dispute thing(s) that they didn't achieve themselves.
Well if USA fabricated the moon landings then why didn't they fabricate Apollo 13 also, why did they admit failure on that mission, why not stage another moon landing in the, supposed, same studio as the other moon landings were fabricated?
have you ever seen very deep water creatures? y'know, watch NOVA or ngc? There are some very cool 'movies' of spectacular underwater creatures right here on this planet. Planet EARTH, not to be confused with awestralya. Do you think these photos were concocted in some hoolywood studio? I am 99% sure you are just goofing that the moon landing is made up. No reason to be a total dits about it.
The firm I used to work for used to pay for PR functions around LAX. The officers of the company didn't like going to them, so I sometimes went. I attended a breakfast honoring the space program and featuring some astronauts. I sat at one of the front tables that sat twelve.
There was this funny, older gentleman at our table cracking jokes. I wish I could remember some of his jokes. The waitress didn't give him sugar for his coffee that he asked for and instead of complaining, he made a joke out of it. He only stayed at our table around fifteen minutes and disappeared. He never came back.
The program gave praise to the space program, but no astronauts. We were told that Buzz Aldrin was supposed to be there, but the joke was, he buzzed off. We were also told that Charles (Pete) Conrad was there, but he left. It turned out that the gentleman cracking jokes was Charles Conrad of Apollo 12 fame. This was in January 1999, six months before he was killed in a motorcycle accident.
Of course, the moon landing made up is nothing to get total dits about until it became a point of contention and the reason for a relationship breaking up. Is it a big deal? Only if you make it so. The point is what makes it a big deal?
If I remember rightly, the Soviet Union not only acknowledged the first manned moon landing, but very strongly publicized it as an historic event.
But there was serious scientific skepticism about Australia's monotremes (echidna and platypus). Eminent biologists dismissed the first (preserved) specimen brought to England as hoax, made by stitching together parts of different animals. Only an expedition by an English biologist to see the creatures in the wild settled the question, via the most famous telegram in the history of life science: